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Jack and Carla?

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Strangely today suddenly Carla no longer connects to Jack, and Jack looks upset:
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What happened?
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Did you upgrade anything? What distro are you using? Do you usually start jack via Qjackctl? Try starting Jack this way:

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jackd -d alsa --device hw:0
Or if you have two sound cars the same command with hw:1 instead of hw:0.
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Linuxmusician01 wrote:Did you upgrade anything?
Could be - I had a series of upgrades from the KXStudio repositories.
What distro are you using?
Linux Mint 17
Do you usually start jack via Qjackctl?
Yes.
Try starting Jack this way:

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jackd -d alsa --device hw:0
Now Carla works again. :D

But the GUI of QjackCtl is still out of order.
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Maybe there are system lib/app mis-matches, as mint 17 is good, but old.
If you have an external drive for test setups, installing a current release of Mint
could be a more stable use of the Kx repos.
I have a Mint 18 that is very stable, although aging fast :( :wink:
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Re: Jack and Carla?

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LinMusGuy wrote:
Linuxmusician01 wrote:
Try starting Jack this way:

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jackd -d alsa --device hw:0
Now Carla works again. :D
Well - Jack started one time, but no more. Now I get:

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$ jackd -d alsa --device hw:0
jackdmp 1.9.12
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2016 Grame.
Copyright 2016-2018 Filipe Coelho.
jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
self-connect-mode is "Don't restrict self connect requests"
audio_reservation_init
Failed to acquire device name : Audio0 error : Device reservation request with priority 2147483647 denied for "Audio0" via RequestRelease()
Audio device hw:0 cannot be acquired...
Cannot initialize driver
JackServer::Open failed with -1
Failed to open server
Maybe I should indeed upgrade my Linux version?
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LinMusGuy wrote:Well - Jack started one time, but no more. Now I get:

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$ jackd -d alsa --device hw:0
jackdmp 1.9.12
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2016 Grame.
Copyright 2016-2018 Filipe Coelho.
jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
self-connect-mode is "Don't restrict self connect requests"
audio_reservation_init
Failed to acquire device name : Audio0 error : Device reservation request with priority 2147483647 denied for "Audio0" via RequestRelease()
Audio device hw:0 cannot be acquired...
Cannot initialize driver
JackServer::Open failed with -1
Failed to open server
Maybe I should indeed upgrade my Linux version?
This is really weird. I'm on Mint 17.1 too, updated KXStudio and I'm on latest QJackctl and latest jackd2 package. If it's not too much trouble (which I think it is) then you might want to consider re-instelling Linux. Are you sure it's not a broken or "almost broken" hard disk? I'd backup my files asap if I were you.

Good luck! :)
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I have made a back-up of my personal files (those are the most important), so that worry is out of the way. :)
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I have reinstalled Jack2 and QjackCtl but the problem is still there! QjackCtl message:

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14:44:26.147 Initialisatie van statistieken.
14:44:26.165 ALSA verbindingen aangepast.
14:44:26.178 DBUS : Service is beschikbaar (org.jackaudio.service ook gekend als jackdbus).
14:44:26.217 JACK verbindingen aangepast.
14:44:26.237 Client geactiveerd.
14:44:26.238 Patchbay uitgeschakeld.
14:44:26.248 XRUN callback (1).
Cannot connect to server socket err = Bestand of map bestaat niet
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
(qjackctl:3548): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_direction: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
(qjackctl:3548): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_direction: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
Thu Jun 20 14:44:26 2019: New client 'qjackctl' with PID 3548
14:44:28.240 XRUN callback (3 overgeslagen).
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 sudo usermod -a -G audio USERNAME 
This helped me to get Jack working again, but I still get the deformed GUI of QjackCtl.
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LinMusGuy wrote:

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 sudo usermod -a -G audio USERNAME 
(...) but I still get the deformed GUI of QjackCtl.
Solved! I could resize the GUI by putting the cursor on the borders and dragging them to their normal position by means of the ->| signs on the screen. How simple can it be! :mrgreen:
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Re: Jack and Carla?

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Haha! I love easy fixes! Saved you reinstalling your OS!
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milo wrote:Haha! I love easy fixes! Saved you reinstalling your OS!
Finding this super-simple solution was a pleasant surprise to me also!
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